Quotes About Representation

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

I want to put Sacramento back on the map.

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

I never saw Black Santa growing up. I would have loved to.

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.

I was looking for someone to represent me and an agent sat me down and said, 'I don't think there's anything to work with here.'

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.

CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

I want to see more sci-fi with black people.

Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.